ABSTRACT

We should be led too far, if we developed our belief as to the transformations to be wrought by this greatest of human triumphs over earthly conditions, the divorce of form from substance. Let our readers fill out a blank check on the future as they like, – we will give our endorsement to their imaginations before-hand. We are looking into stereoscopes as pretty toys, and wondering over the photograph as a charming novelty; but before another generation has passed away, it will be recognized that a new epoch in the history of human progress dates from the time when He who – never but created light